Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.
By The Newsroom
Published 31st Aug 2010, 10:43 BST
Updated 31st Aug 2010, 10:56 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Don't risk all your money on the footballer! (4-4)

5. Gradually move towards the border (4)

9. Part of a bare, arid region (4)

10. Uses arms and provides a warm welcome! (8)

11. Makin' a foundation for this container (5)

12. Poor grain is coming up (7)

13. Not a state in which to get caught napping (13)

18. Rallies about workers' organisations (8)

19. A small number going to the Spanish festival (4)

20. He covers a canvas attachment to the boat (7)

21. Check about a form of power (5)

22. Breeding stock to resort to, we hear (4)

23. Mischievous adventure to gain freedom about the present time (8)

Down

2. High-speed correspondence (3-4)

3. Tattered piece in documentary system is easily destroyed (7)

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4. One who gets engaged at the same time as a friend (7,2,4)

6. Refuse to disappear over the horizon (7)

7. Sensing that standards have changed (7)

8. Follows the track in back-street (6)

13. A small measure of moral consideration (7)

14. After the end of the course, Trudie is unusually knowledgeable (7)

15. Track equipment damaging the piston (6)

16. Express without punctuation? (3-4)

17. When rough water's coming over the top of the deck, he'll be needed! (7)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Obstinate (8)

5. Squabble (4)

9. Indication (4)

10. Mishap (8)

11. Last (5)

12. Employ (7)

13. Insomnia (13)

18. Upbraid (8)

19. Virtuous (4)

20. Accuse (7)

21. Minor (5)

22. Flank (4)

23. Halting (8)

Down

2. Insignificant (7)

3. Servitude (7)

4. Recurrence (13)

6. List (7)

7. Suitability (7)

8. Bounds (6)

13. Excel (7)

14. Out-of-date (7)

15. Wordy (6)

16. Disregard (7)

17. Curtail (7)

Monday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Innate; 4 Mascot; 9 Johann Strauss; 10 Release; 11 Creel; 12 Ashes; 14 Stool; 18 Erato; 19 Replace; 21 Bird in the hand; 22 Ending; 23 Warmer.

Down: 1 Injury; 2 No holds barred; 3 Tonga; 5 Apricot; 6 Cause for alarm; 7 Tussle; 8 Aspen; 13 Etonian; 15 Feeble; 16 Trots; 17 Tender; 20 Pieta.

QUICK

Across: 1 Assist; 4 Larrup; 9 Jurisprudence; 10 Swelled; 11 Blunt; 12 Stuff; 14 Besom; 18 Alter; 19 Perusal; 21 Foolhardiness; 22 Ensure; 23 Helmet.

Down: 1 Adjust; 2 Surreptitious; 3 Sisal; 5 Audible; 6 Run out of steam; 7 Pretty; 8 Grade; 13 Further; 15 Baffle; 16 Spurt; 17 Closet; 20 Raise.